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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

The only way to start is to start.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

10.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

21.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam